The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

the righteousness of the scribes and
pbarisees, you cannot enter the king
dom of heaven. If they (the phari-
sees) hate me they will hate you also,
if they prosecute me they will persecute
Won also; fear not them that can kill
The body, but fear him that can kill
both soul and body and cast it into hell
fire. Then let US fear God and keep
His commandments, for obedience is
better than the fat of all lands.
"Drink no longer water but a little
wine for thy stomach's sake and often
infirmities."
That command is standing to-day,
and is as much an order as baptism.
L may be called a whisky man for
giving the foregoing scripture. Well.
| will be found in company with Jesus.
They said the same about my Master.
l never bought a drink in a saloon in
my life. l have been a sober, temperate
man all my life, and have exhorted all
men and women to be temperate in
everything. Let our lives be a pattern,
both in the pulpit and on the streets,
| aud before our children and our neigh
bors. Let us be temperate in speaking
as we'll as in eating and drinking. The
tongue sets on fire the Goals of hell. The
Incorporate use Of the tongue has
caused more blood to be shed than has
| the distortion of any other blessing God
has bestowed upon US. Go back TO the
Incorporate use of the tongue when
| the preachers of the north carried abO-
litionism into their pulpits. They
kindled a fire in the United States.
| Well may it be SAID, it sets Oh fire the
Goals of hell. 1t has caused rivers OF
blood to be shed. The same class of
preachers are carrying the local option
law into their pulpits in this and other
counties, which if carried out, takes
our liberties from US ami those OF our
children
Now the same class OF preachers are
trying to take from US the laws of God,
given to US, as we'll as the laws of the
land. A man that takes a vexed poll
teal question into the pulpit shows he
has never been called OF God as Aaron
was, but that he is called by the al
mighty dollar. and he has no love Tor
Jesus. If he had he would not be
found fighting against his teachings.
My prayer to God is, whenever l at
tempt to twist the Gospel to answer
political ends, that my tongue may be
palsied until l repent me Of the evil.
l will say TO old and young, refrain
from all manner OF intemperance; 60
not to the saloon or gambling places ;
shun all manner of evil. Solomon
says, bring up your children in the way
you will have them 60, and when they
get old they will not depart from it. !
have raised five IONS and l have tried
to impress upon their minds the evil OF
intemperance. I gave them spirits
S1ahnepever I used them myself, but
augu the consequence of the i'll
the church at Corinth, that 500 n,
them had been guilty Of drunkenness
, adultery, tornication and lying, bu1
said again, Ye are washed, We are
cleansed, ye are sancti1ed, ye are JUST.
fed. So We see a man can gel
drunk and yet be saved. Let preachers
learn to be obedient to the laws of Goo
? and man. They should show love and
good will to all men, proving to them
they are their friends, 80 they a exert
an influence Owe them, for Paul sayi
he made himself all things to all mer
so he might ave some from error, fol
knowing the terror of the law he per-
suaded men. He did not try to force
them by prohibltory power.
j. WARDER.